cpio extraction currently does a memcpy to ensure that the archive hex fields are null terminated for simple_strtoul(). simple_strntoul() will allow us to avoid the memcpy.
Signed-off-by: David Disseldorp ddiss@suse.de --- include/linux/kstrtox.h | 1 + lib/vsprintf.c | 7 +++++++ 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/linux/kstrtox.h b/include/linux/kstrtox.h index 7fcf29a4e0de4..6ea897222af1d 100644 --- a/include/linux/kstrtox.h +++ b/include/linux/kstrtox.h @@ -143,6 +143,7 @@ static inline int __must_check kstrtos32_from_user(const char __user *s, size_t */
extern unsigned long simple_strtoul(const char *,char **,unsigned int); +extern unsigned long simple_strntoul(const char *,char **,unsigned int,size_t); extern long simple_strtol(const char *,char **,unsigned int); extern unsigned long long simple_strtoull(const char *,char **,unsigned int); extern long long simple_strtoll(const char *,char **,unsigned int); diff --git a/lib/vsprintf.c b/lib/vsprintf.c index 56fe963192926..734bd70c8b9b3 100644 --- a/lib/vsprintf.c +++ b/lib/vsprintf.c @@ -114,6 +114,13 @@ unsigned long simple_strtoul(const char *cp, char **endp, unsigned int base) } EXPORT_SYMBOL(simple_strtoul);
+unsigned long simple_strntoul(const char *cp, char **endp, unsigned int base, + size_t max_chars) +{ + return simple_strntoull(cp, endp, base, max_chars); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(simple_strntoul); + /** * simple_strtol - convert a string to a signed long * @cp: The start of the string